His new album “Wysing Forest” is out today on Border Community. An ode to the Nature that surrounds us every day, to its power and its presence, a clear message for us that nothing would be possible without it. We had the pleasure of doing a few questions about the album with Luke Abbott.

Hi Luke and thanks for being here.

Hello, thanks for having me.

Let’s speak about “Wysing Forest”, your new album that it will be out this month on Border Community. Is there a place or a special location that has inspired you during the release of the album? Are they nine tracks that speak about feelings or places? Don’t you think that sometimes Nature is the mirror of ourselves?

The album was all recorded at an arts centre in Cambridgeshire, Wysing Arts, hence the album title. In a lot of ways it’s a soundtrack to that place, the land and the environment there were a big influence on the music I made. There is defiantly a focus on the natural world in the music too, the idea of trees and the forest is very important. With the album I try to explore and reflect those ideas. It was important to me that the music had a sense of growth, that it flourishes and that it dies away, like the life cycle of a plant.

Listening to the album sometimes it seems to be in the Nature, sometimes it seems to be in a holy place, sometimes surrounded by the darkness: the metaphor of the life maybe. What are your favorite natural elements? Is there something that you could live without it (music saved)?

The power of nature is something that is very interesting to me. I like how it’s always there in the background. We build these cities, these massive concrete monuments, but there’s always bit of nature breaking though. Cracks in the pavement, walls being pushed away by the roots of trees, moss and lichen growing on the sides of buildings, all of it reminding us that one day it will all be forest again.

The track that makes me crazy of you has been “Modern Driveway” from the EP “Modern Driveway” on Notown. What was the location of your first studio? Do you prefer working better alone, right ?

I made that track in my bedroom studio, I don’t work in there anymore as I have my studio in a garage now. I think I’m more productive when I work alone because when you’re making music sometimes it gets more interesting if you are allowed to be very selfish and indulgent. But more recently I have become interested in collaborative work, so maybe in the future I’ll be doing more of that? I suppose it depends on who I find to work with.

“Krautrock” in your style influences also. Can you tell us more about your interest in the past musical scenes? Do you have favorite bands or artists from the Seventies?

I love a lot of the Krautrock music because it was all about breaking away from tradition and constructing something new, and that’s what I want to do now. Sometimes you have to look backwards to more forwards. There’s also something very magical about the sound, it was before you were allowed to be lazy with music production. There’s no skill in making ‘clean’ or ‘professional’ sounding music anymore, you don’t need to be good at sound in that way. But there’s a huge lacking in music that has real character in the sound. When I listen to a record I want to feel connected to the person that made it, I want there to be a human presence in the music. But not in the way that pop music does it (by presenting you with an idol), but instead in a more spiritual way, like Terry Riley or Alice Coltrane or Rodelius. They have real soul in their music.

Do you have albums or tracks that you consider fundamental in your growth as artist? You are young: what don’t you like most about the club scene today that you would like to improve in it?

There’s so many records that have influenced me that it would be hard to list only a few right now. But generally it’s the weird things, the records that don’t sound like anything else, those are the ones that I enjoy. And as for the club scene, I’m totally bored of it at the moment, I feel like an alien when I’m in most clubs right now. There’s still a few more open minded clubs that can be a lot of fun, but I feel like most of the time it’s just the same old shit, music with the same tricks, sounds that function but fail to inspire. I want something fresher than that.